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Josh Hamilton

Articles

Writing on systems and leadership.

Practical notes on reliability, incident response, and building software that keeps teams calm.

2026-02-01 5 min read

AI has changed the way I code

How my day-to-day shifted from mostly typing to mostly prompting, and what that unlocked.

aiworkflowcareer
2022-11-27 3 min read

Console log with implicitly returned React components

Sometimes it can be annoying when you are trying to quickly console log something within a component that it implicitily returned, here is a quick trick.

reactdebugging
2021-04-02 6 min read

Getting started with React and ViteJS

In this blog post I go over the basic scaffolding of building out a starter React app using ViteJS and explain ViteJS works compared to something like your traditional module loaders such as Webpack.

reactvitetooling
2021-03-28 4 min read

Twitter Share Feature

Easily adding a simple share button to a blog around sharing on Twitter

frontendproduct
2021-03-22 7 min read

Building a Subscription Feature

Using Fastify and Sendgrid to build out a simple opt-in newsletter subscription feature so that I can start to gain a contact list to send out new blog posts.

backendgrowth
2017-07-26 6 min read

How To Start a Pair Programming Routine

Pair programming is a side hobby that I have found to help me branch out and learn from local developers in my community. I strongly suggest going for it if you can fit it into your schedule.

collaborationcareer
2016-05-19 7 min read

Getting Around API Rate Limiting

Anyone who has had to work with an external API knows the problems that can occur when there are a lot of users hitting endpoints that directly pull from the external API's.

backendperformanceredis